A/RES/56/28 achieving the widest possible adherence to this instrument at an early date, and calls upon successor States to take appropriate measures so that ultimately adherence to these instruments will be universal; 2. Calls upon all States parties to the Convention that have not yet done so to express their consent to be bound by the Protocols to the Convention; 3. Welcomes the convening, on 10 December 2001, of the Third Annual Conference of States Parties to Amended Protocol II, in accordance with article 13 thereof, and calls upon all States parties to amended Protocol II to address at that meeting, inter alia, the question of holding the fourth annual conference in 2002; 4. Welcomes also the proposal contained in the Final Declaration of the Review Conference of the States Parties to the Convention, adopted by consensus on 3 May 1996, 5 that the next review conference consider the question of eventual further measures in relation to other conventional weapons which may be deemed to cause unnecessary suffering or to have indiscriminate effects; 5. Notes, therefore, the proposals put forward by States parties and the International Committee of the Red Cross for consideration by the 2001 Review Conference, concerning, inter alia, the following issues: (a) Compliance procedures and mechanisms; (b) Explosive remnants of war; (c) Extension of the scope of application of the Convention and the Protocols thereto to non-international armed conflicts; (d) Landmines other than anti-personnel mines; (e) Small-calibre ammunitions; 6. Requests the Secretary-General to render the necessary assistance and to provide such services, including summary records, as may be required for the Second Review Conference of the States Parties to the Convention as well as for any possible continuation of work after the Conference, should the States parties deem it appropriate; 7. Also requests the Secretary-General, in his capacity as depositary of the Convention and the Protocols thereto, to continue to inform the General Assembly periodically of ratifications and acceptances of and accessions to the Convention and the Protocols thereto; 8. Decides to include in the provisional agenda of its fifty-seventh session the item entitled “Convention on Prohibitions or Restrictions on the Use of Certain Conventional Weapons Which May Be Deemed to Be Excessively Injurious or to Have Indiscriminate Effects”. 68th plenary meeting 29 November 2001 _______________ 5 CCW/CONF.I/16 (Part I), annex C. 3